Please ignore Chris (well, do upgrade though, 20.10 is oooold, it hasn't seen security updates in months)
I understand your report, I only implemented lock waiting for the dpkg lock, not for the list lock that update holds. Note that apt-get generally doesn't wait for the lock, only apt does (you can pass/set options to make apt-get behave the same). I'm not sure update lock waiting is necessary - there's little point in running update again if you are already updating. It makes sense for install, because you might just want to schedule two installs. OTOH, I can see you writing a script that does update and install, and which breaks because apt-daily.service is running in the background. ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Triaged ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1939665 Title: "apt-get update" fails if another instance is running To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1939665/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs